Coaching quote

THE MINUTE WE BEGIN TO THINK WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, WE FORGET THE QUESTIONS . Madeleine L'Engle

Happiness is possible

Having more joy does not necessarily require a life overhaul, you might just need to create more space in your life for moments of joy.
Debrena Jackson Gandy

The following video give some good tips to be happier and more positive

What does a coaching leader do?

1.  Make sure my team members have defined their reality, to stop, think, and truly assess their current situation.
2. Clarify their vision and define their goals ; most people constantly react to events, people and things... And therefore are not driven by purpose.
3. Understand and address roadblocks to their vision ; we are most blinded to the things that are most comfortable or familiar to us.
4. Test their thinking, opinions, and conclusions : we easily get caught up in insanity,"doing the same things over and over ; but expecting different results."
5. Establish accountability; too often people fall short by confusing intent with action

How to enjoy success according to Daniel. Harkavy

The way to enjoy success yourself is by focusing on the success of those around you, making their success your mission. Help them to figure out how to win both in their careers and lifes and you will enjoy success and significance.

Tom Landry's definition of a coach

A coach is someone who tells you what you do not want to hear and has you see what you don't want to see, so that you can be who you have always known you could be.

Everything I learned about leadership I learned it from Helgi the viking and his lean sensei

This is a story about Helgi, a strong, tall Viking, who was the leader of his village. Helgi had almost all the traits to become a great leader: He had dreams, dreams of conquering new lands, he was respected by his people, he was good at what he did: fighting, going on raids and executing (executing people).

After many successful raids across the European continent, Helgi decided that he wanted to expand his "business" in order to ensure a prosperous rich future for his village, so he decided to have the best consultant available helping him with his new goal of conquering the west. In order to do this, he engaged the services of a Japanese Sensei (Lean consultant), expert in cultural transformations.

The sensei came to visit Helgi and the first thing he did was to listen and try to understand what Helgi was trying to achieve. After some weeks of observing Helgi and his people at the village, the Japanese consultant made the following remarks:

"Helgi, you are doing it all wrong!! You are terrifying your people, they are afraid of you, they are not sharing their best ideas with you and you are creating enemies, if you want to offer a better, more secure future for your people, you have to comply with the following rules:

1- Have Dreams!, dreams you can share with your people so that they are inspired by them, in those dreams they need to see something better for them. And even though your current dreams are big, they do not involve a long term prosperity for your people or the people from other tribes or cultures they interact with. Therefore think in terms of long term prosperity for everybody, your people, other tribes and the environment.

2- Be good at Execution, but not the kind of execution, in which you kill people, be good at the execution of ensuring your dreams are supported by solid plans where you know what needs to happen next, who is going to do what, why things are being done and how things are going to be done. Then you will have to follow  up on that plan and address any deviation so that your dreams can be achieved.

3- in order to build faster boats, produce better weapons, you have to promote a culture of continuous improvement, where people can feel free to point out and bring to light problems and where you can get their ideas to resolve those problems. This in return will bring satisfaction to your people, because they will feel they are contributing, applying their skills and being valued.

4- Respect people: respect their ideas, their individualism, respect the fact that they need development and need to be challenged to be better, respect their environment, listen to them first, before you tell them something.

Respect for people also means that you have to trust them, and trust creates a sense of belonging and satisfaction.

5- Win the heart of your people: know their names, know their significant other's names, know what they like, dislike, what they do when they are not with you, what dreams do they have and above all be kind.

6- You have to know your business, but you Helgi, you already know your business very well, just make sure you use your knowledge wisely, use it to coach your people to find the answers by themselves so that they can grow, use your knowledge to help shape stronger and bigger visions and dreams and above all use the knowledge for the benefits of all, including those you consider your enemies, because if you can turn your enemies into allies then you and your people will be unstoppable in reaching your goals.

With these remarks the sensei returned to Japan and Helgi retreated to reflect about what he has learned, Helgi was able to understand the whole picture and immediately applied himself to implement what he had learned. Helgi went on to reunite his Vikings and become a great man and leader.

Quote on Leadership

“If we are trying to get humans to do something together, we need to

understand our and their humanity. Such is the nature of holistic business.”

 

How to be a millionaire quote

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

- Benjamin Franklin

Napoleon Bonaparte's quote on success

"I succeeded because I willed it. I never hesitated"

Richard Nixon quote

"Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity"

How to be the best - Quote

"if you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people are not willing to do"

- Michael Phelps"

Quote about Success

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"

- Franklin Roosevelt

Goethe quote about Life

"The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it."

- Johan Wolfgang Goethe

Albert Einstein Quote

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth."

Quote of a New Manager

" I did not have the slightest idea what my new job was"

Quote about good communication

"In order that all men be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

- Samuel Johnson

Quote on happiness and success

"Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass"

- Davy de La Pailleterie

This quote sums all up very nicely. If we do not take control of what we want to do we our life, random events and other people will, pulling us in directions we do not want to go.

Quote on making your life better

"Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction, without direction, there is no life."

- Leo Tolstoy

Dalai Lama quote

"I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It does not mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others"

- Dalai Lama

Integrity Quote

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat

- Lily Tomlin